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How to improve theaccuracy of EWT The Cognitive Interview Technique…read more

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Internal validity Higher or lower? Yuille and The serial Cutshall position InterviewingEffect experiment People after a Bank robbery. External validity Higher or lower? Loftus and Palmer Christianson and HuninetteAutomobile speeds. Interviewing real witnesses to Bank robberies…read more

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What is the cognitive interview? Fischer and Gelselman (1992)Based on psychological research on Effective memory recall. Widely used by police.…read more

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Problems Fisher et al (1987) studied real life interviews by detective officers in Florida over 4 month period. They found that witnesses were frequently bombarded with a series of brief, direct and close-ended questions aimed to elicit facts. However, the sequencing of these questions often seemed to be out of sync with the witnesses' own mental representation of the event. Witnesses were often interrupted and not allowed to talk freely about their experiences.…read more

Slides in this set

Slide 1

Slide 2

How to improve theaccuracy of EWT The Cognitive Interview Technique…read more

Slide 3

Internal validity Higher or lower? Yuille and The serial Cutshall position InterviewingEffect experiment People after a Bank robbery. External validity Higher or lower? Loftus and Palmer Christianson and HuninetteAutomobile speeds. Interviewing real witnesses to Bank robberies…read more

Slide 4

What is the cognitive interview? Fischer and Gelselman (1992)Based on psychological research on Effective memory recall. Widely used by police.…read more

Slide 5

Slide 6

Problems Fisher et al (1987) studied real life interviews by detective officers in Florida over 4 month period. They found that witnesses were frequently bombarded with a series of brief, direct and close-ended questions aimed to elicit facts. However, the sequencing of these questions often seemed to be out of sync with the witnesses' own mental representation of the event. Witnesses were often interrupted and not allowed to talk freely about their experiences.…read more